British Provincial, Wiltshire, Marlborough, Marlborough and Wilts Old Bank, Five Pounds, 11 October 1817, no. 19304, for King, Gosling & Tanner, signed by John Gosling (Outing 1404E; Grant 1923C). Pinholes, trimmed and a piece missing from lower left corner, otherwise very good, scarce £150-200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of British and Irish Banknotes formed by the Late Edward Barnby.

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The Marlborough Old Bank, founded in 1791, was reconstituted on 1 January 1811 as a partnership between Stephen King, who lived at Overton, John Gosling (†1839, aged 75), William Tanner (†1847), of Blackland House, near Calne and Robert Griffiths, a solicitor in Marlborough. They issued a number of shilling and sixpence tokens dated 1811. The bank had ceased to exist by 1853